Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Observability) is open at Affirm (Remote Canada). The posting gives a salary of CA$181K - CA$241K. Posted on Oct 30, 2026, and still on Affirm’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
· You will own the architecture of Affirm’s telemetry pipeline, balancing reliability, query performance, and cost at 200+ TB/day. · You will design log sampling strategies that significantly reduce volume and cost without losing the signal engineers need during incidents. · You will shape how observability fits into agentic development, so that AI coding agents and code review catch instrumentation gaps before code…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Affirm’s careers page.
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